HYDE PARK, NY AND ONLINE — The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will hold “The Prescient Life of Ida B. Wells” with Prof. Paula Giddings at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 26 at the FDR Presidential Library and Home or streamed live on YouTube and Facebook.

The event is a discussion of Ida B. Wells, a crusading journalist and pioneer in the fights for women’s suffrage and against segregation and lynchings. 

The in-person event will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home and streamed live to the official FDR Presidential Library YouTube and Facebook accounts. 

Registered attendees can visit the Library’s special exhibition, “Black Americans, Civil Rights and the Roosevelts” for free before the program, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Paula J. Giddings is the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor (Emerita) of Africana Studies at Smith College and editor emerita of Meridians, a scholarly journal published at Smith. She is the author of “When and Where I Enter: The Impact on Black Women of Race and Sex in America,” “In Search of Sisterhood,” “Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement” and “Ida: A Sword Among Lions.”

“Ida” was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Los Angeles Times Prize in Biography and the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. In 2017, Prof. Giddings was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

This is a free public event, but registration is required to attend in person. Visit www.fdrlibrary.org to register.

Call Cliff Laube at 845/486-7745 with questions about the event.